“When
Illinois legislators finally pushed through a large and complicated pension
reform bill last December, they generally agreed that revisions would be
off-limits until the courts had a chance to rule on the constitutionality of
their handiwork. Follow-up tweaks to bills are common, but lawmakers were
wisely loath to reopen a bill that required so many deals and compromises to
get done in the first place.
But
one error in the bill is so serious and pressing that it must be fixed, and
quickly. The error — a drafting mistake that set a key date in 2013 instead of
2014 as intended — would trim university pensions so severely that top
professors might begin fleeing in droves before the end of June.” READ
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Title:
“For sake of higher education, fix pension bill error now”
Author:
Editorial Staff
Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
Date
Published: April 22, 2014
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